![]() ![]() It is about a particular time and place when Australia was searching for its own artistic Based on Helen Garner’s diaries of her bohemian life in 1970’s inner city Melbourne, Monkey Grip is the voice of a generation. ![]() In considering the worldly text as an articulation of the literature-place interface, we investigate how images and affects from Helen Garner’s 1977 novel, Monkey Grip, influence understandings and formations of place in Melbourne, specifically how the text reflexively participates in processes of urban transformation in the city’s iconicĬonsidered by many to be Australia’s first contemporary novel, ‘Monkey Grip’ published in 1977 heralded a revolutionary change on the Australian literary landscape. She’s been a key figure in Australian letters since 1977, when she published Monkey Grip, a short novel that confronted readers with the grit and lyricism they’ve since accepted as Garner’s trademarks.It was an appropriately bold start - Garner had reaped a whirlwind of controversy in the early ‘70s when she gave frank answers to Helen Garner was born in Geelong, Australia, in 1942. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction.
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